Mark Bosson

Passionate about animal health, animal welfare, and contributing to benefiting the New Zealand livestock industries.

Particularly interested in the development of tools to assist these industries in creating excellence in animal health, welfare and productivity in a sustainable manner.

Personal experience and skill set has allowed me to develop expertise in biosecurity, surveillance and disease control programmes, risk assessment, design and support of decision support tools utilizing data collected into purpose-built databases, stakeholder communication and leadership. I am a good critical thinker, objective, open to the ideas of others and enjoy working in teams, capable of both thinking at a strategic level while able to focus on the details required for successful programme implementation.

• Innovation and entrepreneurship
• Team leader or member of an effective and passionate team with strong levels of trust and support for one another.
• Using data management, reporting and decision tools development to support operational policy and implementation.
• Risk profiling
• Understanding 'real' welfare, biosecurity and health risks
• Utilising peer reviewed journal articles to assess information
• Identify knowledge gaps and potential opportunities [including research]
• Systems design for managing animal health data, creating effective reporting and data presentation for decision making, particularly in disease surveillance/control.
• Delivery of surveillance programmes for early detection of key disease/pest agents, early warning of newly emerging problems and health monitoring systems
• Plan development tools

• Veterinary training and experience.
• Understanding health parameters and disease data.
• Critical thinking and developing strategies for end-to-end solutions.
• Project management – ability to define core deliverables to best achieve desired outcomes with fit for purpose solutions [efficacy and efficiency balance].
• Epidemiological ability: to analyse information, create reporting structures, define improvements to systems, understand analytical methods, study design etc. and particularly the design and implementation of programmes with clear objectives.
• Experience working with research institutions, including study design, analysis and application.
• Decision support – identifying the best ways to use data to inform programmes and creation of tools to complete analyses to effectively answer questions, and presentation of data easily understood by the user.
• Ability to understand others’ needs and communicate effectively.
• An understanding of regulatory requirements related to welfare, animal health and biosecurity.
• Regulatory experience in export programme management and auditing roles
• A drive for results, and the ability to adapt to meet the dynamic and complex nature of a business and key stakeholders.
• Leadership - ability for creating vision, coordinating and getting the best from a team.
• Experience with technical pharmacology queries and some experience in technical marketing of products.